How to Quickly Create a Table of Contents for Medium Stories

An easy guide to hyperlink a TOC to paragraph headings within an article

Table of Contents

· Overview
· Install TOC Medium
· Create the TOC
· Summary

Overview

The table of contents provides an overview of an article’s contents and organization. By adding hyperlinks to it, readers can easily navigate directly to a specific section of the article.

There are several ways to insert a TOC into Medium stories. So far, I‘ve used (1) Developer tools, (2) Smart TOC extension, and (3) TOC Medium extension. The third is the easiest.

This article covers adding a TOC to your Medium stories using the TOC Medium extension. After installing the extension, you can edit the story, create the TOC, save, and publish it.

Install TOC Medium

TOC Medium is a TOC generator for Medium stories. For now, TOC Medium is available only for Chrome. Go to the page via the link below.

TOC Medium